Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature.

Why Primo Levi Survives His will to bear witness, and record the hellish particularity of the Holocaust, helped save his life in Auschwitz. It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for.

But for Levi, that did not mean going southwest, direct from Auschwitz to Turin, but east. East into the USSR, north almost to Minsk, then looping around and running south to Romania.

But Primo Levi's experiences were not exactly typical. As a middle class Italian Jew educated in chemistry, he was "lucky" (as he words it) to have been sent to Auschwitz in 1944, a time when the ...

After his liberation from Auschwitz, Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi observed, “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one. It has not been easy or quick, but ...

This week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, an Italian writer whose accounts of the death camp at Auschwitz are among the most admired examples of Holocaust literature. A new ...

Auschwitz Report By Primo Levi, with Leonardo De Benedetti Edited by Robert S. C. Gordon Verso, 128 pages, $17.95. Although best known for his seminal work, “Survival in Auschwitz,” Primo Levi ...

A Primo Levi recorded oral history The manuscript was donated to the museum by Paul and Deykin, of Brookline, Mass., who were given it by their mother, the late Anna Foa Yona.

At first glance, Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall, a new collection of essays edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese (Fordham University Press, 2011), looks to be ...